I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.